A place to share cool science ideas for storytime!

Archive for June, 2015

If you are looking for science activities for storytime, this is a great resource. It contains 365 activities that can be done at home (Or preschool/family storytime!). Each activity has step-by-step photos and directions with helpful hints, so everyone knows how things might look and what outcomes can be expected.

If you go online to the Usborne Quicklinks mentioned in the book, you can additionally link to the following topics:

Experiments and activities to try online.

Watch video clips of experiments.

More experiments to try at home.

Templates to print out.

This is a treasury of science activities that could be a wonderful resource for any storytime staff member.

Remember, if you have a great picture book with a related science activity to share, we would love to publish it on our Science in Storytime Blog. Just go to our Contact page or send us your ideas care of science@lincolnlibraries.org.

After sharing the book, talk about the hair, nails (claws), teeth and horns on the monsters. Talk about how hair and nails are adaptations of the skin/hide and teeth and horns are a part of the skeletal system (bones) of the body. You might also invite a guest from a venue such as a zoo, where there may be “touching” examples of each for children to examine.

This book has a great back section that helps children relate to Penguins. Using this as a reference, have either a measuring tape or yardsticks to help children see how they would “measure up” to the tallest and the smallest penguins. If time permits, further examine some of the other penguin facts in this section.